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Is it the end of the 9 to 5 working day?
Traditional workplace hours of 9am to 5pm are now only the norm for a minority of workers, research suggests. Just 6% of people in the UK now work such hours, a YouGov survey found. Almost half of people worked flexibly with arrangements such as job sharing or compressed hours, allowing them to juggle other commitments, it found.
Anna Whitehouse, a campaigner whose own flexible working request was refused by her employer, said there were still misconceptions about such arrangements. In her case, her employer refused her request for 15 minutes flexibility at the start and end of each day to enable her to drop off and pick up her children from nursery. "They denied it because they said it would open the floodgates for other people to request the same thing." [...] Since then she has started the Flex Appeal, aimed at convincing firms to trial flexible working and also to make people aware of their right to request flexible working.
[...] Polling firm YouGov surveyed over 4,000 adults for the survey, which was commissioned by fast-food chain McDonald's.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:04AM (1 child)
Mare Island Naval Shipyard had one gate on the freeway, the other at the other end of a bridge from a city street. I remain flummoxed as to how even Flex Time enabled all the Civil Service staff to get to work every day.
My father was quite the opposite of me: very much a Lark. Out of bed every single day at Oh Five Hundred Hours without so much as an alarm clock his entire adult life until he was too old and too sick to get out of bed at all anymore.
So he'd get to work at seven every morning and have the office mostly to himself so he could get real work done, then he'd arrive home at four at first on his Yamaha 360 because he told Mom that he needed to conserve gasoline - in a Pig's Eye, Dad just liked bikes - then later a Yamaha 750.
I'm not sure I can ever figure out why I never asked him to teach how to ride a bike. He would have been into it. Dad was always a very cautious, patient and thoughtful kind of guy, not at all your biker stereotype.
Even so when the rains came he'd bike twenty miles each way two and from Mare Island wearing a snowmobile suit and fleece-lined leather gauntlets.
It happens that last week a Neurologist cleared me to drive. I haven't had a brain seizure since 2014 when I started taking Trileptal. While I'm going to buy a beater wagon at first then fix it up, later I'll buy a bike brand-new, most likely a 250. I really don't want to deal with picking up a dropped heavy bike. I'm not at all into speed rather I like touring the countryside. I was once lent a 75 cc motor scooter for a Summer while it's owner was away from Santa Cruz for his job. I rode it all along the coast on highway one, through the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was glorious.
I want to do that again
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @03:29PM
> ..lent a 75 cc motor scooter for a Summer ...
So you were the slow poke I was stuck behind on CA Rt 1 for all those frustrating miles(grin).